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Reddit mentions of Helen’s Asian Kitchen Suribachi Set, Ceramic Mortar Bowl with Wooden Pestle
Sentiment score: 5
Reddit mentions: 11
We found 11 Reddit mentions of Helen’s Asian Kitchen Suribachi Set, Ceramic Mortar Bowl with Wooden Pestle. Here are the top ones.
- Helen’s Asian Kitchen Suribachi Set, a traditional Japanese ceramic mortar with wooden pestle, efficiently grinds items into a fine paste or powder
- Made from ceramic earthenware with glazed exterior; mortar 5.5 x 2.25-inches; wooden pestle 4.75-inches; sturdy and durable
- Unglazed interior has sharp ridges to prevent contents from sliding; grinds quickly with less effort; use a soft-bristle brush to dislodge food
- Perfect for crushing sesame seeds, garlic, herbs, seasonings, and all types of nuts to prepare authentic Asian dressings, sauces, and pastes
- Simply place ingredients inside the mortar, use pestle to rotate contents against the sharp, raised ridges of the bowl; rinse in hot water, no soap
Features:
Specs:
| Color | One Color |
| Height | 2.5 Inches |
| Length | 5.5 Inches |
| Size | 5.5-inch |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Width | 5.5 Inches |
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I wanted to see this for myself. It's a Japanese bowl you can get for $10 on Amazon. Suribachi bowls are the Japanese-version of a mortar and pestle. This one looks great for the price.
The bowl is a non-glazed ceramic with vertical ridges rising out along the insides up to the lip. The ceramic and the ridges give the bowl about 9000% more surface area. This means you can whip bubbles into a Greek yogurt-thick lather with the same confidence you'd get picking up the blue shell in Mario Kart.
This picture is ten seconds of bowl-lathering. It's so thick I thought there'd be fruit at the bottom.
I used a Maggard 22mm synthetic and Barrister & Mann's 42. Maybe it was cheating to use a B&M soap, but the bowl yielded lather so fast that the difference was immediately obvious.
I needed to see the hype for myself. We who live on the /r/wicked_edge have a tendency to throw money at whatever new thing pops up on the market. If Barrister & Mann announced tomorrow that they're making a special limited edition soap/AS set called "Corn," promising that it would smell exactly like corn, reminiscent of the cornfields of Iowa, we would all preorder the set and unzip. The box would come with a recipe for jalapeño cornbread. There'd be mail call posts showing the glorious corn label art. Thirty /r/shave_bazaar posts would pop up with [WTT] and [WTTF] tags. Two years later the violently polarizing Corn would be considered unobtanium.
I can safely say the Suribachi bowl is worth a place in your shave den. The hype is real.
Edit: Here's the link.
Also also wik: Fixed the link.
Yup. Also what works great are big cappucino or soup mugs or salsa bowls. Another good option are cheap Japanese suribachi bowls. The ridges apparently help build lather.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000UEYXL8/ref=sxts_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506216167&sr=1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65
It was about 7$ when I got it. It was a random link someone posted on here. Only tested it with random non-shaving soaps but the texture change is real!
A suribachi bowl like this one
Yep! Here you go!
The ceramic suribachi bowl that was shown here a while ago seems pretty good. The ridges on the inside of the bowl really make your lather expand.
Amazon Link
https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Kitchen-5-5-inch-Ceramic-Suribachi/dp/B000UEYXL8/
$10.62
Looks like [this] (https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Kitchen-5-5-inch-Ceramic-Suribachi/dp/B000UEYXL8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498398686&sr=8-1&keywords=Suribachi+bowl).
When I use a bowl, I like using a Suribachi. The ridges help it build amazing lather.
I bought a suribachi (bowl used for grinding sesame seeds) in Japan for 100yen which does the job nicely.
I'm not in the US but looks like you can get them through Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Helen-Kitchen-5-5-inch-Ceramic-Suribachi/dp/B000UEYXL8 though I'd 1st try an Asian grocer/supermarket as may find 1 cheaper there.
Link for the lazy